The recipients for the summer of 2002 are:

• Dr. James Edwards - "Is Jesus the Only Savior?" This research project is intended as a two part volume on the subject of Jesus as savior. The first part of the volume will be devoted to a contextual reading of evidence in the New Testament, while the second part will set this evidence into a dialogue with compromising and challenging contemporary claims regarding Jesus as sole savior of the world. A completed manuscript will be submitted to a theological journal in 2003.
  
  
• Scott Kolbo and Gordon Wilson - "Shared Space: Culture, Alienation and Marginality" This collaborative project will deal with marginalized and alienated individuals, helping to formulate a more coherent theology of the arts. Both artists will approach the theme of marginality separately, then collaborate to bring characters from both artists into the same visual space, interacting with one another on formal, conceptual, and literal levels. Finished works will be submitted to the jury process for exhibition in college and rniversity galleries, museums, and other venues.
  
  
• Dr. John Yoder - "Palestinian Political Leadership During the Pre-Monarchic Period" Using the tools of political science, history, anthropology and archeology, this project will study and describe the political structures of the pre-monarchic period, especially as these forms relate to leadership. Through a reexamination of the texts of Judges and some chapters of Joshua and I & II Samuel, this study will highlight areas regarding politics and political leaders, the perspective of the ordinary people, and the correlation between political events and the stories used to validate or critique political realities.
  
  
• Dr. Noelle Wiersma - "Metaphors for College Student Development" This project will examine the developmental tasks and formative experiences relevant to undergraduate students in a Christian liberal arts educational environment, with special consideration of the power of metaphor to represent and, possibly, redress those issues. The result of this project will be a book consisting of written metaphors by Whitworth University students, a review of current thought regarding metaphor and college student development, and guidelines and exercises for metaphor writing.
  
  
• Dr. Pamela Corpron Parker - "Literary Tourism and the Woman Writer" This book project documents women authors' innovations in a variety of literary genres, traces their explorations of gender identities, and clarifies their roles as religious and literary role models. Primary focus will be on the homes and literary careers of Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. This project is an outgrowth of ongoing collaboration with the research group "Gender, Genre, and Faith: Religion and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer."
  
  
• Kirk Westre - "Servant Leadership in Sport" This project will examine the viability of servant leadership in the arena of sport. The goal of this research will be to examine whether servant leadership can be successfully implemented in the highly competitive, win-oriented world of sport and can offer valuable strategies for fulfilling sport's potential as a vehicle for positive character formation. The findings from this research will potentially inform the possibility of using a Christ-centered approach to leadership in sport, as well as valuable pedagogical strategies of positive character formation.